Windows Phone continues to struggle to make forays into the smartphone market, with two well-known research firms, finding that he had 2% U.S. market share in the first quarter of the year.
The first part of the double-whammy for Windows Phone came last week, when the NPD Group found that only had 2% of sales of new smartphones in the United States in the first quarter. Android continues to dominate, with the market share of 61% among new smartphone buyers:
Android: 61%
iOS: 29%
BOARD: 5%
Windows Phone 7: 2%
Then today, Nielsen found that Windows Phone was only 1.7% market share among all U.S. smartphone owners during the first quarter of the year. This number is the total market share among all owners, not only for buyers of new phones, which measured NPD. Surprisingly, Windows Mobile with a market share of 4.1% has a market share larger than Windows Phone. Android dominates again, with market share of 48.5%):
Android: 48.5 percent)
iOS: 32.0%
BOARD: 11.6%
Windows Mobile: 4.1%
Windows Phone 1.7%
There is no new goods in all this to Microsoft. With many millions spent on marketing, launch costs and development costs, Windows Phone still fail to gain any traction.
Yet, Microsoft is doing a good job trying to get support for the operating system that are struggling. The carriers are looking for a way to get leverage against Apple's onerous demands for subsidies for every iPhone that sells and they're trying to Microsoft to become a serious competitor. And la Lumia 900 is a very well designed, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak say that is superior in some ways to the iPhone.
But despite this, the bad news keeps coming. Every once in a while, a product, even a well-designed, appears to be jinxed. Could this be the fate of Windows Phone? At the moment, seems to be so.
The first part of the double-whammy for Windows Phone came last week, when the NPD Group found that only had 2% of sales of new smartphones in the United States in the first quarter. Android continues to dominate, with the market share of 61% among new smartphone buyers:
Android: 61%
iOS: 29%
BOARD: 5%
Windows Phone 7: 2%
Then today, Nielsen found that Windows Phone was only 1.7% market share among all U.S. smartphone owners during the first quarter of the year. This number is the total market share among all owners, not only for buyers of new phones, which measured NPD. Surprisingly, Windows Mobile with a market share of 4.1% has a market share larger than Windows Phone. Android dominates again, with market share of 48.5%):
Android: 48.5 percent)
iOS: 32.0%
BOARD: 11.6%
Windows Mobile: 4.1%
Windows Phone 1.7%
There is no new goods in all this to Microsoft. With many millions spent on marketing, launch costs and development costs, Windows Phone still fail to gain any traction.
Yet, Microsoft is doing a good job trying to get support for the operating system that are struggling. The carriers are looking for a way to get leverage against Apple's onerous demands for subsidies for every iPhone that sells and they're trying to Microsoft to become a serious competitor. And la Lumia 900 is a very well designed, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak say that is superior in some ways to the iPhone.
But despite this, the bad news keeps coming. Every once in a while, a product, even a well-designed, appears to be jinxed. Could this be the fate of Windows Phone? At the moment, seems to be so.
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